. d " G f fi " a pretty rapl rate. ot a ast st, Henrietta said. "Ought to have. Been in the Navy thirteen years." Since it was obviously impossible in those days for a girl to have actually been in the Navy, I determined to stick around after I had finished my own in- spection of the warships and learn a lit- tle bit more about Henrietta. I waited on the sea wall for a quarter of an hour, until she and the battleship had finished their small talk, and then I suggested that we might all go someplace for a nice warm drink. The ladies agreed, and we walked over to my car, which was parked on Riverside Drive. We got in and I started crosstown to a res- taurant on Broadway. On the way, I asked Henrietta how she had happened to become interested in the Navy. A look of adoration came into her eyes. She said it began one day in 1927, when she was still in her teens. She was living on Staten Island with her mother, a wid- ow, who told her that the newspapers had reported that the fleet was in and an- chored up the Hudson. Henrietta took a ferry over to Manhattan to investigate. She went up to Riverside Park, where the gobs were coming ashore on liberty, and counted five thousand of them be- fore she stopped. "I just fell in love with the whole Navy," she said. After this revelation, I was only mod- erately surprised when we got into the restaurant and Henrietta, removing her raincoat, revealed a blue serge skirt and a United States sailor's regulation blue wool middy blouse, correctly termed a jumper. The jumper, I noticed, had the three white lines of a first-class sea- man around its cuffs. It also had, on the sleeve above the left cuff, the sparks of an apprentice radioman and three red stripes called hash marks, which showed that Henrietta had been "in" the Navy for at least three four-year enlist- ments. Henrietta saw me looking at these, and quickly eXplained that her assuming them was perfectly simple and understandable. After being an un-uni- formed "member" of the Navy for sev- eral years and finding it spiritually un- satisfactory, she had stopped in at a sailors' supply store, where she had had no trouble at all in buying a jumper. The salesman may have been a little puzzled, but he made no objection. She specified one with a first-class seaman's cuff stripes, feeling that she had earned the promotion. The hash marks had come from the same place, and so, in due time, had the apprentice radioman's badge. We all ordered hot chocolate, and Henrietta announced that in the sum- 55 JOY OF THE OUTDOORSMAN, the multiple reverberations of sound that make an echo are just a pain in the ear to sound recording engineers. For often in hard-ceilinged rooms the maze of shivery echoes and cross- echoes becomes so intricate that voices are blurred into incoherence Just as the automobile called for better roads, so the expansion of voice amplifi- cation and recording is leading to rooms of better acoustical design. I THE C SE 8 UNCI THE ICE ð fa **p:::: &..;<::. i . ...:: :t @ ..... Dictaphone sound engineers are echo experts. They can't do much about echoing rooms, but they do and have done much to cut down the amount of echo that is picked up in voice recording The scientific design of the Dictaphone mouthpiece is one reason why your Dictaphone dictating machine records your voice clearly and intel- ligibly. And on Dictaphone electric recording equipment, unwanted rever- berations are effectively damped out by a filtering unit in the amplifier and by proper mounting of a microphone with a limited sphere of sensitivity. We can't say much about the many other developments Dictaphone has in production for the armed forces But they are serving just as well as the thousands of Dictaphone dictating machines in ,var industries and Govern- ment offices here and abroad. And ,vhen ,ve have 'Yon through to peace, theæ advances achieved during the war ,viII offer strong reasons for the even ,vider adoption of the Dictaphone method of dictation by business- men everywhere. Dictaphone Corporation, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, N. Y. DICTAPRONE DICTATING AND RECORDING EQUIPMENT The word DICTAPHONE fs the reg-fstered trade-mark of Dictaphone Corporation, makers of dictating machines and other BOUDð recording .and reproducing equipment bearing said trade-mark.